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The Soneva Group
| Contributor | DiegoNunez |
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| Country | Thailand |
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| Postal address | 142 Two Pacific Place, 19F Sukhumvit Road, Bangkok, Thailand |
| Phone | +66 (0) 2631-9698 |
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| Webpage | http://www.soneva.com/ |
| Release date | 30/03/2018 |
| Landscape type | Forest |
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Winner, Envirnonment Award 2015
How can an industry that uses vast amounts of water, consumes a lot of electricity and creates mountains of waste, be sustainable? And what if its hotel is sited on a remote coral atoll, where there is nowhere to grow food, all the water is salty and there is no one to deal with the waste? If you want the answers to the many sustainability challenges facing tourism, you might look to Soneva. Soneva simply banned imported bottled water in 2008. Instead it produces and sells high quality filtered mineral water on site. It then donated a portion of profits to water projects that benefit over 600,000 people in developing countries, while saving 800,000 plastic bottles from going to landfill. 79% of Soneva’s waste is recycled through its state-of-the-art Waste-to-Wealth programme. All food waste is composted, thus creating soil that is reused in the hotel's 4,500 m2 vegetable gardens. On these they grow organic food to serve to their guests - 15,000kg of produce per year, worth US$48,000.
